NEWS Fromfondren

Volume 10, Number 1 Fall 2000 NEWS from FONDREN A Library Newsletter to the Rice University Community

IS IT EBOOKS? OR E-BOOKS? OR EBOOKS?

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FALL 2000 1 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 FONDREN LIBRARY PROJECT UPDATE USING ELECTRONIC BOOKS Use of the library electronic book During the past six months library working groups and project differs somewhat from use of the personal electronic book, just as architects have continued to address planning and design issues use of traditional printed library books differs from use of printed of the interior spaces of the proposed expansion and renovation personal books. Some of the fea- of Fondren Library. At the same time, options for the exterior tures of this specific collection of electronic books may seem restric- design of the new library building received consideration by the tive or odd. netLibrary attributes Rice University Board of Trustees. several design decisions to con- cerns from the publishers about revenues and retention of the intellectual property in these works. While working with the project design architect, Robert Venturi, The electronic books pur- it became increasingly apparent to the Buildings and Grounds chased from netLibrary will be available to you from any location, Committee of the Rice University Board of Trustees that the ex- twenty-four hours per day, seven pansive scale of the new addition was far greater than originally days per week—with restrictions. Readers of electronic books may imagined. It was also felt that the traditional guidelines and ex- preview the title (multiple readers pectations for Rice architecture might not be compatible with may preview at the same time) or “check it out” (access to the book the Venturi proposal. “The last several months have been a time is restricted to one reader). The online checkout period is two of education for us,” said Kent Anderson, chairman of the com- hours. If you are informed that a mittee. “The library is, by far, the largest building on campus book is checked out by another reader, the notice should also indi- and is in a central location. Those two facts present challenges cate when the book will be avail- not present in any other project.” able once more. (The system will automatically “check in” the electronic book—no overdues in the online world!) After much consideration, the Buildings and Grounds Commit- In order to check out an elec- tee concluded that alternative approaches to the design of the li- tronic book from netLibrary, you will be asked to complete a per- brary needed to be considered. Acknowledging the leadership of sonal registration process. As part Robert Venturi in this planning process, the trustees plan to ex- of this process, you may ask the system to notify you by e-mail about plore alternatives with other prominent architects. Although the new books on subjects of interest. project time line could be affected somewhat, the library project netLibrary has developed mechanisms for limiting the copy- continues to move forward as extensive planning continues. ing and printing of electronic books. Readers can copy or print Sally Reynolds single pages, just as people can [email protected] photocopy single pages of a printed book. If a user is rapidly viewing multiple pages of an elec-

NEWS from FONDREN 2 tronic book—a pattern that indi- cates the possibility of page-by- DID you KNOW? page printing—netLibrary will dis- play a copyright notice and Per the most recently published federal survey*: instruct the user to discontinue his or her actions. If the pattern con- • Academic libraries reported a gate count of about 16.5 million visitors tinues, netLibrary will disable the per week (about 1.6 visits per total FTE enrollment). By comparison, account for a period of time. Fondren Library’s gate count equates to 3 visits per FTE enrollment. See http://www.netlibrary.com /overview.asp or contact Fondren • The median number of volumes held per FTE student by academic li- Library for more information braries was 58.2. The median ranged from 19 volumes per FTE in in- about netLibrary’s features. stitutions offering less than four years of study to 111.2 in doctorate- granting institutions. By comparison, Fondren Library has 492 THE FUTURE IS ... ? volumes per FTE. • The three largest expenditure items for all academic libraries were Fondren Library will be track- salaries/wages (50 percent), current serial subscriptions (18 percent), ing the use and benefits/chal- and books (11 percent). By comparison, Fondren Library spent 34.8 lenges of providing electronic percent on salaries/wages, 27.9 percent on current serial subscrip- books. We speculate that this me- tions, and 19.6 percent on books for the collection. dium will help address specific * Source of comparison data: National Center for Education Statistics, Library needs for the Rice community, Statistics Program. such as reducing frustration about accessing certain popular materials. The library cannot, for ex- It is possible to link from some of the library’s journal indexes to the full ample, seem to buy a large enough text of the journal online. Examples include linking from the FirstSearch quantity of O’Reilly and Associ- indexes to a variety of humanities and social science journals and linking ates’ books. Perhaps online access, from Current Contents to many science and engineering journals. combined with a two-hour maxi- Some of these links are easy to achieve, as when the index and mum “check out,” will improve online journal are available from the same source (e.g., FirstSearch), but the odds of a would-be Java or others require Fondren Library to work through the technical and mar- Perl student getting programming ket barriers of linking multiple information vendors (e.g., OVID and questions answered. Academic Press). We continue to strive, however, to make your informa- We also hope for increased in- tion gathering more straightforward. tellectual access to scholarly and professional books through the full-text indexing offered by this A variety of new literature databases is available, including Contemporary medium. The potential impact on Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, the character of scholarly inquiry and What Do I Read Next? The state of Texas’s Texshare system has made could transform the electronic these databases—as well as Biography & Genealogy Master Index, Discovering book collection from a mere con- Science, Texas Almanac, InfoTrac News, and a new interface to Books In Print venience to a serious research tool. (which often includes book reviews)—available to all Texas libraries. We look to Rice faculty and students to help quantify the utility and nature of electronic books and Fondren Library is now benefiting from several new endowments. They to guide development of this latest include: library collection. • Adele Cambielh and Charles Arthur Gehret Kerry Keck Assistant University Librarian, • Lackner Endowment for Special Collections Collections • Francis Loewenheim Endowment [email protected] • Schiffick Endowment for Scholarly Materials

FALL 2000 3 CHINESE ROMANIZATION SYSTEM CHANGES

Fondren Library gogical tool to teach and other American students to read Chi- libraries, in coop- nese script. Books, eration with the dictionaries, maps, Library of Congress etc., coming out of (LC), are currently China use the Pinyin in the process of system for roman- converting Chinese ization of Chinese names and Chinese- characters. Pinyin is language catalog what Western tourists records from the see written on street existing Wade-Giles signs below the Chi- spelling to the spell- nese script street ing used in the names. This system Pinyin system of has been used world- romanization. The wide as an educa- name of the ancient tional tool to learn Chinese philoso- the sounds of Manda- pher, Lao Tzu, rin Chinese. (The illustrates the kind Rice Chinese lan- of change that can guage program, for be expected. When example, has been the project is com- using Pinyin ever plete, the library Jiun Kuo and Dr. Lilly Chen consult Chinese text in Fondren’s since its beginning in user will have to collection. the early 1980s.) look under the Pinyin form “Lao Zi,” instead WHY PINYIN? HISTORY OF CHINESE of the Wade-Giles form “Lao ROMANIZATION Tzu.” Like the Wade-Giles system, Pinyin For many reasons, the (literally, “spell sound”) uses the Romanization of Chinese came Library of Congress has Latin alphabet to spell Chinese words about as a solution to the prob- delayed for years the under- based on the pronunciation of the lems facing Chinese script— taking of this massive project Beijing (or Northern Mandarin) dia- namely, the Chinese writing sys- and is, at present, behind lect. Following different rules, the tem is neither alphabetic nor most other institutions in the same speech sound is spelled differ- purely syllabic (in which syllables adoption of this standard. ently in the two systems. and symbols have a one-to-one Many U.S. government agen- Why has Pinyin come to be re- correspondence, as in the case of cies and magazines (such as garded as the preferred roman- Japanese kana). Chinese script is Time) adopted Pinyin ization standard, rather than morpho-syllabic; therefore, it romanization more than a Wade-Giles or some other roman- needs many symbols (called decade or two ago, while in ization system that has been used characters). It takes years for the some countries it was adopted for Chinese names? The answer is learner to master the characters. even earlier. The British Li- that Pinyin is the official romaniza- To be literate, a Chinese needs brary, for instance, switched tion system for spelling Mandarin to be able to read and write at to Pinyin in 1966 for the cata- Chinese in the People’s Republic least two thousand characters, as loging of new Chinese acquisi- of China. In elementary schools in listed in Saomang Yongzibiao tions. China, Pinyin is used as a peda- “list of characters to eliminate il-

NEWS from FONDREN 4 literacy” (Zhong People’s Con- COMPARISON OF WADE-GILES AND PINYIN 1995:15). Accord- gress. Of these ing to a survey on systems, the the number of Below are some examples of Wade-Giles and Pinyin correspondence: Wade-Giles be- characters con- came the most tained in publica- WADE-GILES PINYIN widely adopted tions in social and and remained natural sciences, Teng Hsiao-ping Deng Xiaoping the most-used conducted by the Ch’in-shih-huang Qin Shihuang system in the National Commit- jihli rili West until it was tee on Chinese hsiat’ien xiatian gradually re- Script (Sun ch’angtu changdu placed by 1995:19), the av- Peking Beijing Pinyin, as LC is erage newspaper ts’ungming congming doing now. The or magazine con- Chungkuo Zhongguo Wade-Giles sys- tains three thou- Ch’ung Ch’ing Chongqing tem was de- sand to seven Ssu Ch’uan Sichuan signed by the thousand distinct British sinologist characters. An obvious visual difference between Wade-Giles and Pinyin is Thomas Francis The first per- the presence of apostrophes and the set of consonant clusters Wade, who lived son to use the ts, tz, ss, sz, which are absent in Pinyin. Syllables beginning in China for de- Latin alphabet to with the letters z, x, q, as in zeng, xi, qiao, are Pinyin. Chinese cades. The sys- transliterate Chi- romanization guidelines developed by the Library of Con- tem, as given in nese was Matteo gress are available at http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pinyin/ his Peking Ricci, a Catholic romcover.html. A Wade-Giles to Pinyin table can be found at Syllabary, was Jesuit priest who http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/%7Eoclccjk/wgtopy.htm. The con- first published lived in China for version chart is also available at http://www.pantheon.org/ in 1859. It was thirty years prior mythica/miscellanea/conversion_chart.html. Conversion slightly modified to his death there charts and links to other Pinyin-related sites are provided at by Herbert A. in 1610. In 1605 http://lang.rice.edu/lchen/Pinyin/PinyinConv.html. Giles, a British he published a sinologist, in his book, since lost, Chinese-English using the Latin alphabet to pro- inspired by the “spelling” aspect of dictionary in 1892 and thus be- vide pronunciation for four Chi- alphabetic writing and began to came known as the Wade-Giles nese character texts (Ni 1958). devise their own method of teach- system. The missionaries who came to ing reading of Chinese characters, As mentioned above, Pinyin China after the Opium War in using either the Latin alphabet or was formally adopted as China’s 1842 looked upon the Chinese a limited number of simple com- official romanization system in script as something that needed ponents of some characters as 1958. In 1975 the Chinese State to be bypassed if the masses were sound symbols to spell a word Council decided that all per- to be taught to read the Bible (much like the Japanese syllabary). sonal and geographic names and hymnal in a relatively short More than one hundred spell- should be spelled in the Chinese time. They successfully used the ing systems were proposed be- phonetic alphabet, i.e., Pinyin. alphabet to spell the local dialect tween the waning years of the Im- In 1977 the United Nations of the people. While they had an perial Qing (1644-1911) and the adopted the Chinese Pinyin as evangelical purpose in mind, year 1958, when Pinyin was for- the international standard in some Chinese intellectuals were mally approved by the National romanizing Chinese geographic

FALL 2000 5 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 Research Libraries Group, and the EXCEPTIONS TO PINYIN Online Computer Library Center CONVERSION names. In 1978 the State Council (OCLC), who are spearheading announced that the alphabetiza- this effort. The group has also con- There are a number of excep- tion of Chinese names of per- sulted with other leading research tions to the conversion of Chi- sons and places in Pinyin should libraries whose experiences might nese-language names from Wade- be applied to all languages using be instructive in Rice’s planning. Giles into Pinyin. Some personal the Roman alphabet, including In accordance with national names will continue to use the English, French, Wade-Giles form, ei- German, and Span- ther because they are ish. These official very well-known in this decisions help to form or because the end the quandary person has specified of the last hundred RUSSIA that the Wade-Giles years, namely, the form is the preferred existence of several form. The Library of competing alpha- MONGOLIA Congress has compiled betic systems for a list of twenty-five transliteration of hundred personal Chinese names and JAPAN names that will not be places. CHINA converted to Pinyin. Although Pinyin FONDREN’S will be used for all CONVERSION INDIA TAIWAN place names in main- PLANS land China, place names in Taiwan will Fondren Library continue to be anticipates a chal- romanized using the lenging, but Wade-Giles system. smooth, transition (The Board of Geo- from the Wade- graphic Names has Giles system to the not approved any Pinyin romanization system. The project directives, Rice began cata- change in form of Taiwanese switch to a different system will loging all new Chinese-language place names at this time.) Place necessitate changes in thousands materials in Pinyin on October 1, names in Hong Kong and Macao of records, both those in Chi- 2000. form other exceptions to the nese and those in other lan- In September the working Pinyin rule; they will use either guages that have names, added group’s focus shifted to options for the Cantonese form or some titles, subjects, or notes in Wade- the conversion of existing Chinese- other irregular form. Giles form. Because of the com- language records and the conver- In cases of conversion to plexity of the project, Pinyin sion of non-Chinese records con- Pinyin form, there will be refer- conversion has to proceed in taining Chinese data. National ences from Wade-Giles forms of multiple phases at both national project guidelines call for indi- personal and place names to the and local levels. vidual libraries to complete conver- preferred Pinyin form of head- In May 2000 a Pinyin Conver- sion of existing records by October ing. However, references from sion Working Group was charged 1, 2001. Fondren Library will prob- variant forms of corporate with planning Fondren Library’s ably be working with OCLC to con- names (i.e., government bodies, implementation of the conver- vert the forty-two hundred Chinese businesses, schools, etc.) will be sion project. The group has records in our catalog which are given only in Pinyin; no refer- closely monitored the activities cataloged under the Wade-Giles ences from old Wade-Giles forms of the Library of Congress, the system. of names will be used.

NEWS from FONDREN 6 CALL NUMBER CHANGES HOW TO PROCEED NOW We are confident that, when the project is completed, it will The Library of Congress, whose During the time the conversion is greatly benefit our users by pro- classification system is used by in progress, catalog files will be viding more consistent and en- Fondren Library, will continue to split; it will be necessary to search hanced access to the Chinese- classify Chinese literary authors under both Wade-Giles and Pinyin language materials in our (PL), philosophers (B), scholars forms of names to be sure all infor- collections. (C), artists (N), and statesmen mation has been located. Users’ (DS) under already established guides and other relevant hand- Lilly Lee Chen Wade-Giles forms of names. Ref- outs will be prepared to assist in Lecturer, Center for the erences will be made from Pinyin searches. A user will also need to Study of Languages forms of name where necessary. be aware of both forms of name [email protected] For works on persons new to the when browsing the stacks, as books LC classification schedule, num- may be arranged under the Wade- Jiun Kuo bers will be based on the Pinyin Giles form of name, the Pinyin Assistant Head of Cataloging/Head form of name. Place names in the form of name, or both. of Copy Cataloging DS classification schedule will be Fondren Library has made a [email protected] changed to the Pinyin form of strong commitment to the Pinyin name, which may cause books conversion project and has begun Elizabeth Baber about the same place to be the work needed to carry it out. Head, Database Management shelved in two locations. [email protected]

Text from Ssu K‘u ch‘üan shu (Wade-Giles romanization).

References Ni, Haishu. Hanyu Pinyin de Gushi (The story of Pinyin). Shanghai: Shaonian Ertong Chubanshe, 1958. Zhong, Zeming. ‘Yuyan Wenzi Yingyong Yanjiusuo Shinianlai Chengdan he Canyu Yanzhi de Guojia Biaozhun he Buweiji Guiding Jianjie (A summary of ten years of work by the Applied Linguistics Research Institute on the national standardization and regulation of Chinese script),’ in Yuyan Wenzi Yingyong Yanjiu Lunwenji. Beijing: Yuwen Chubanshe, 1995. Sun, Jianyi. ‘Xiandai Hanyu Zipin Ceding ji Fenxi (Measurement and analysis on frequencies of modern Chinese characters)’ in Yuyan Wenzi Yingyong Yanjiu Lunwenji. Beijing: Yuwen Chubanshe, 1995.

FALL 2000 7 FONDREN LIBRARY GOES WIRELESS

Have you ever wished you could just sit down at one LIBRARY PLANS AND PROBLEMS of the tables in the library, turn on your laptop, check your mail, or start searching for that article or As is planned for the campus as a whole, wireless book you need, without having to plug in anywhere? network access in Fondren will initially start in one Later this year your wish will become a reality, at area and spread as budget and construction allow. least in some areas of Fondren Library. The library’s Wireless access will first be available in the reference Information Technology (IT) staff has been busy all and periodicals areas at the front of the first floor summer installing a wireless network in the main and on the second-floor balcony. Access from study public areas. Using it, you will have the same access areas on other floors may be added later, depending to campus networks from your laptop as you now on the library building project schedule. A library is an ideal place to have wireless access for a laptop, but the very nature of a library also makes it a particularly difficult place to install it. Wireless technology is based on the transmission of radio waves, and dense stacks of shelving and books block lower frequency radio waves almost as well as a lead shield. Transmitters installed at the ceiling cover the large open areas very well but do not pen- etrate the stacks. For this reason, areas deeper in the stacks do not receive as strong a signal as the more open reference and periodicals areas.

NETWORK CARDS

In order to receive a signal, laptop users will need to install a WaveLAN network card in their computers. have from your office computer. With a login and The cards are available at the Circulation Desk and password to an Owlnet account, you will be able to can be checked out for the semester; they will be check your mail, surf the Web, and search the li- due back at the end of each semester. This will en- brary catalog and CD-ROM collection, without hav- sure that there are cards for everyone who wants to ing to worry about finding a free terminal. use them and also allow IT staff to update and re- The wireless technology that makes this possible place cards as needed. is already fairly ubiquitous. We are using it for our Cards are available for PCs, MACs, and ma- cell phones, digital pagers, and Palm Pilots to do chines running LINUX. Installation of the card is minimal Web searching and e-mail. The leap from simple, although some configuration changes must scrolling through a brief e-mail message line by line be done on the laptop. Instructions for installation (as on a pager or cell phone) to seeing the whole and configuration will be distributed with the net- message on one screen, and even being able to re- work cards, and members of the Fondren IT staff spond, is greater in the convenience it affords us can help with any problems. Once the card is in- than in the technology required. It is hoped that in stalled and the configuration changes made, you ten years wireless access will be available campus- should be able to log on to your laptop, sit down at a wide, so that you will be able to start your laptop table in the reference area, and have the campus anywhere on campus and access the Web, e-mail, network at your fingertips. and the various Rice networks without having to Jack Drost plug in (except to charge your battery once in a Database Administrator while). A wireless network has been in place in Duncan Hall for most of the summer and has been [email protected] functioning quite well there.

NEWS from FONDREN 8 NEW DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT POSITION CREATED IN LIBRARY

To help the library usual for her chil- meet the financial dren to fall asleep challenge posed by on a low book- plans for its expan- shelf. When Mary sion, Mary Bixby was in the second has been ap- grade, the town’s pointed to the new librarian died. Ac- position of Direc- cording to the will tor of Develop- of the donor of the ment—Library. library, the librar- This position ian had to live in closely parallels the library. Thus, similar positions when Mary’s recently created mother accepted for development the job of librar- purposes for the ian, the family Jesse H. Jones moved to an apart- Graduate School of ment in the library Administration, building, where the School of Hu- they lived until Mary was in the manities, and the Mary Bixby hangs picture of library where she grew up. School of Natural ninth grade. While Sciences. there, Mary and Besides raising the $87.5 million pres- her brother enjoyed twenty-four-hour access ently allocated for the renovation and expan- to all the books, although her mother made sion of Fondren Library, the Director of De- them use a flashlight after hours in order not velopment—Library will also raise money for to excite the envy of other townspeople. new and ongoing library programs, such as Mary’s educational background includes endowments and lectureships. This will be ac- a B.S. degree in history from East Tennessee complished through a combination of identi- State University and an M.L.S. degree from fication, cultivation, and solicitation of poten- Sam Houston State University. She has tial donors and a program for recognition of worked in fundraising and development for donors. A leadership committee of volun- several nonprofit organizations and also as a teers, consisting of alumni and friends of Rice librarian at Pennzoil. Mary came to Rice as University, will be formed to assist in this ef- the Executive Director of the Friends of fort. Mary will work with other university de- Fondren Library in fall 1996. She will con- velopment officers to identify volunteers in- tinue to hold this title and have overall re- terested in contributing to the library sponsibility for the Friends, while also assum- fundraising campaign. ing her new duties as Director of Mary comes by her interest in libraries Development—Library. naturally, having been raised by a librarian in a library. As Mary tells the tale, her mother Elizabeth Baber began working in a library while still in high Head, Database Management school. After she married, Mary’s mother ran [email protected] a bookstore in her home, and it was not un-

FALL 2000 9 LIBRARY’S CATALOGING COLLECTION SECTION EXPERIMENTING MANAGEMENT WITH METADATA PROJECT MOVES Fondren Library’s Cataloging Section, the unit of the Technical Services De- partment charged with providing bibliographical access to all library materi- FORWARD als, is actively engaged in two experimental projects designed to allow successful retrieval of materials in digital formats. This summer the Collection Management Project began COOPERATIVE ONLINE RESOURCE CATALOG barcoding and inventory of materials in Storage. From the start Since early 2000 Fondren Library has been participating in the Co- it was clear that this effort was operative Online Resource Catalog (CORC) project sponsored by worthwhile. Besides inputting the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) in Dublin, Ohio. the storage location into the More than 150 other libraries joined in the initial phase to help test and evaluate the cooperative CORC database. online record, we were able to CORC is a Web-based, metadata-creation system designed for check and, if necessary, correct creating bibliographic records and subject bibliographies (called holdings and locate volumes “pathfinders”) for electronic resources. The system features many that had become separated automated record creating and editing features, including data har- from the rest of a set. The link- vesting, multiple record creation, and mapping between various for- ing of the barcodes to the cor- mats, such as MARC (Machine-Readable Cataloging) and Dublin rect bibliographic records Core (a developing standard for describing digital resources). makes it easier for a user to After the initial test phase, the CORC system was made available quickly identify what volumes to all OCLC member libraries in July 2000. CORC will provide an are available in this remote loca- infrastructure for experimenting with new standards and technolo- tion. The student team which gies, and Fondren Library will continue to explore its uses and possibilities. worked this summer completed seventy-six sections or about 16 RICE UNIVERSITY STREAMING AUDIO AND VIDEO ARCHIVES percent of the project. Tempo- rary help will be hired to com- Fondren Library is also exploring the possibilities of using metadata plete this task. to manage the RTV (Rice University Streaming Audio and Video Barcoding of unbarcoded Server) archives. There are currently approximately fifty speeches volumes in the Fondren stacks available through the RTV Web site. It is thought that putting de- and linking of these barcodes to scriptive information about each speech into Dublin Core format their online bibliographic would improve current access and future searching options as Web records continues. Serials have search and retrieval mechanisms mature. been completed, and mono- If initial experiments prove successful, Dublin Core might also be useful in describing and providing access to other archived Rice con- graphs barcoding is underway. tent, such as faculty multimedia and Web projects. Dublin Core is only Monographs volumes in call one of many new techniques for creatively dealing with the growing numbers A-N are finished; P is and increasingly complex body of information available today. in progress.

Alice Rhoades Elizabeth Baber Serials Cataloger Co-Chair, [email protected] Collection Management Project [email protected]

NEWS from FONDREN 10 LIBRARY GAINS NEW TENANTS

If you visited the library this past summer, you may guages such as Arabic and Chinese. The LRC offers have noticed a great deal of activity taking place. software programs in numerous languages and ma- Movers, dollies, bookcases, and other items moved terials in multiple formats, including DVD. Many of in and out of the library as various departments relo- their materials and some equipment may be cated around campus. The majority of the activity in checked out to faculty and staff. Fondren Library occurred on the fourth, fifth, and The LRC recently received a number of grants, sixth floors. Members of the History Department va- enabling them to further pursue their goal of digitiz- cated the fifth floor as they moved into the new Hu- ing audio and video materials that accompany and manities Building next door. Taking their place were enhance language courses. First-year Spanish and the faculty and staff of the Hispanic and Classical first- and second-year German students can view and Studies and English listen to related audio departments; they are and video files directly expected to stay until from the teaching scheduled renovations lab’s computers. to Rayzor Hall are These materials are complete. Remaining also accessible outside on the fifth floor are of the LRC on com- the Jefferson Davis As- puters around campus sociation and the Jour- and in students’ dorm nal of Southern His- rooms. This allows stu- tory. dents greater access to materials when the LRC is closed and LANGUAGE helps accommodate RESOURCE CENTER more users.

The largest renovation LIBRARY STACKS occurred on the sixth floor, where space was remodeled to accom- Still on the sixth floor modate the Language are the Center for Resource Center Study of Cultures and (LRC) during Rayzor the Center for Study Hall renovations. of Languages, as well Director Claire Bartlett helps Katherine Whaley in Language Resource as library books with Some offices were re- Center. moved, and floor “A” call numbers. space was rearranged to form three classrooms and The stacks are a little office space for the LRC. The three classrooms in- harder to find now, but signage to the right of the clude a traditional audio/video room with eight car- elevator will lead you down a new hallway to their rels equipped with VCRs, monitors, and audio location. Access to the sixth floor is available via equipment; a Macintosh room with eighteen ma- Elevator B and Stair D, both located in the center of chines; and a general teaching lab with eighteen the building near the Circulation Desk. Additional computer stations. changes on the sixth and fourth floors included re- The general teaching lab features new machines assignment of various offices and carrels to members equipped with Windows 2000. These computers of- of the School of Humanities. fer a significant number of features (including spell David Bynog check and grammar check) in several languages, as Assistant Acquisitions Librarian well as programs allowing students to type in lan- [email protected]

FALL 2000 11 BEHIND THE SCENES: REFERENCE/COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT

Do you need to find criti- tion sessions, informa- cal reviews of the second tion technology work- volume of the Cairo Tril- shops, research consulta- ogy, by Najib Mahfuz, or tion appointments, and recent newspaper articles electronic tutorials and on volcanic activity in Ja- guides. Members of the pan? Perhaps you need campus community may to look up chemical reg- schedule individual ap- istry numbers and physi- pointments with the ref- cal constants and want to erence staff to discuss know if there are any specific research or in- electronic sources. The formation needs, to staff of the Reference/ identify specific refer- Collection Development ence sources, to receive Department is there to assistance with and in- help you find the best in- struction in the use of formation, regardless of information technology, format, for your needs. or to help work out re- To this end, staff mem- search strategy param- bers are available at the eters of thesis or disser- Reference Desk over tation questions. eighty-three hours per Besides reference, week. (The desk is pres- John Hunter and Sara Lowman consult on reference question. teaching, and consulta- ently staffed from 8:30 tion duties, the reference A.M. to 11:00 P.M. Monday staff is responsible for collec- through Wednesday, 8:30 A.M. tion development. Librarians to 9:00 P.M. on Thursday, 8:30 work as subject specialists, in A.M. to 5:00 P.M. on Friday, 9:30 cooperation with faculty from A.M. to 6:00 P.M. on Saturday, the various campus depart- and 12:30 P.M. to 10:00 P.M. on ments, to acquire the materials Sunday.) needed to build general and In addition to the person- specialized library collections alized help available at the in a variety of formats. The ref- Reference Desk, the refer- erence collection, for example, ence staff offers an e-mail ref- includes traditional print erence service designed to sources and electronic re- handle typical questions, such sources in both CD-ROM and as phone numbers, verifica- online formats, as well as cus- tion of publishing informa- tomized guides and handouts tion, word definitions, and for using these resources. In- other simple questions. The formation and lists of elec- form is available at: http:// Sandi Edwards and Paul Orkiszewski at Reference tronic resources are available www.rice.edu/Fondren/ Desk, with student Isamu Nigro in background. at: http://www.rice.edu/ Forms/refer_assist.html. Fondren/Indexes/. The reference staff also offers a full Sara Lowman range of instructional programs and ser- Associate University Librarian vices, including course-related instruc- [email protected]

NEWS from FONDREN 12 LIBRARY LIAISONS

Subject Library Specialist Academic Department Liaison Anthropology Jane Segal ([email protected]) James Faubion Architecture Jet Prendeville ([email protected]) Spencer Parsons Art History Jet Prendeville ([email protected]) Joe Manca Biochemistry Robert Sabin ([email protected]) Charles Stewart Biomedical Engineering Robert Sabin ([email protected]) Bahman Anvari Chemical Engineering Robert Sabin (sabin@ rice.edu) Tony Mikos Chemistry Robert Sabin ([email protected]) Phil Brooks Civil Engineering John Hunter ([email protected]) Panos Dakoulas Classics Anna Youssefi ([email protected]) Hilary Mackie Computational & Applied Mathematics John Hunter ([email protected]) Teresa Parks Computer Science John Hunter ([email protected]) Moshe Vardi Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Robert Sabin ([email protected]) Joan Strassmann Economics Peggy Shaw ([email protected]) Bryan Brown Education Denise Arial ([email protected]) Joe Austin Electrical Engineering John Hunter ([email protected]) Athanasios Antoulas English Jane Segal ([email protected]) Wesley Morris Environmental Engineering Esther Crawford ([email protected]) Matthew Fraser French Sandi Edwards ([email protected]) Madeleine Alcover Geology John Hunter ([email protected]) Colin Zelt German Anna Youssefi ([email protected]) Michael Winkler Health & Human Performance Robert Sabin ([email protected]) James Disch History Anna Youssefi ([email protected]) Marty Wiener Linguistics Sandi Edwards ([email protected]) Phillip Davis Mathematics Sara Lowman ([email protected]) Frank Jones Mechanical Engineering John Hunter ([email protected]) Pol Spanos Music Paul Orkiszewski ([email protected]) Bill Bailey Philosophy Kerry Keck ([email protected]) Steven Crowell Physics/Space Physics Paul Orkiszewski ([email protected]) Peter Nordlander Political Science Kerry Keck ([email protected]) Keith Hamm Psychology Kerry Keck ([email protected]) Mickey Quinones Religion Jane Segal ([email protected]) Matthias Henze Slavic Anna Youssefi ([email protected]) Katya Hirvasaho Sociology Jane Segal ([email protected]) Chandler Davidson Spanish Sandi Edwards ([email protected]) Rafael Merida-Jimenez Statistics Sara Lowman ([email protected]) Dennis Cox

Library Contacts for Special Materials Archives & Manuscripts Nancy Boothe ([email protected]) Electronic Texts & Images Lisa Spiro ([email protected]) Geographic Info Systems & Data Sets Lisa Sweeney ([email protected]) Government Publications Esther Crawford([email protected])

FALL 2000 13 COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT SPECIALISTS

of the Education De- Table to the New Members Round partment and wel- Table of the American Library As- comes feedback and sociation (ALA). She is also a suggestions. Denise en- member of the Education Commit- joys the collegial atmo- tee of ALA’s Government Docu- sphere at Rice and the ments Round Table. Outside the li- opportunity to work di- brary, Denise’s interests include rectly with faculty and literature, gardening, and continu- students. ing studies in political science. In Denise hails from addition to participating in a book the Toronto area in club, she is also taking a course in Canada. She grew up international relations theory this in Orangeville, semester. Ontario, and attended college at McMaster ANNA (ANAHITA) YOUSSEFI University in Hamilton, Ontario. After receiv- Anna Youssefi joined Fondren ing a B.A. in history in Library’s professional staff this 1997, Denise moved to summer as the subject specialist Toronto, where she for history, classics, German, and earned a Master of In- Slavic studies. Before coming to formation Studies from Rice, Anna was a reference librar- the University of ian and subject specialist in history, Denise Arial Toronto in 1999. political science, anthropology, A library veteran and Mexican-American studies at since the age of twelve, the University of Houston. While DENISE ARIAL Denise brings a broad range of li- at the University of Houston, Anna brary experience to Fondren. She coordinated a reading series, “Po- Last November Denise Arial joined worked as a student assistant in a etry & Prose: Creative Writers at the Fondren Library staff as a gov- public library during elementary the University of Houston.” ernment information librarian. and high school. Her library expe- Originally from Iran, Anna Denise provides reference assis- rience during her undergraduate moved to the U.S. during the Ira- tance, teaches patent searching and graduate studies included nian revolution in 1979 and grew classes, coordinates Fondren’s gov- time working in a business and a up in the Washington, D.C., area. ernment publications Web site, music library. She also has experi- Anna attended college at Brown and troubleshoots CD-ROM work- ence as a cataloger of books and University in Providence, Rhode Is- stations in the Government Publi- maps. During graduate school she land, and received a B.A. in history cations and Microforms area. She worked in the Data, Map, and Gov- in 1994. In 1998 Anna graduated also works about four hours each ernment Information Department from Simmons College in Boston, week at the general reference desk at the University of Toronto. Massachusetts, with an M.S. in li- in Fondren. Denise is a very active member brary and information science. Along with her other duties, of the library profession. Besides As a college student Anna Denise recently accepted collec- serving on a number of commit- worked in the library at Brown tion development responsibility for tees within the library, she acts as University. She continued her li- education materials. She is looking the liaison from the Texas Library brary work after graduation from forward to working with members Association’s New Members Round Brown and while commuting to

NEWS from FONDREN 14 ILL PREPARES FOR ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DELIVERY

Fondren Library’s Interlibrary Borrowing (ILL) unit is now pre- paring to beta test Prospero, an exciting new software system that will allow patrons to use their own PCs to retrieve documents from a secure server and print those documents at their convenience, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. For some time, ILL has been receiving scanned documents via ARIEL, a software product designed to facilitate scanning and Anna Youssefi FTP delivery of documents from one library to another. ILL graduate school in Boston. Anna’s prints the ARIEL documents and notifies the patron that they are commitment to lifelong learning ready for pickup. The patron must then come to the library to ob- and her student library job con- tributed to her decision to become tain the document. a librarian. Anna is a member of the American Library Association Prospero, an open-source product created at the Ohio Uni- and writes book reviews for Library versity Medical Library, is able to convert the ARIEL document Journal. Anna’s academic interests cen- into an Adobe Acrobat PDF file, place that file on a Web server, ter around literature and foreign and notify the patron via e-mail that the document is ready to languages. She has advanced reading skills in German and Spanish, view or print. The e-mail will include a PIN to control access to intermediate reading skills in Rus- the document. sian and Farsi, and some knowl- edge of modern standard Arabic. The combination of ARIEL and Prospero represents a major In addition to her ongoing language studies, Anna is currently step forward in convenience to our patrons, because documents taking a painting class at the will be available at any time, and trips to ILL to pick up photo- Glassell School of Art. Outside the library Anna’s attentions are copies will no longer be necessary. In addition, ARIEL/Prospero claimed by a four-and-a-half-year- helps to reduce turnaround time for photocopies, getting materi- old Norwegian elkhound named Pasha. Anna also enjoys weight lift- als to the patrons who need them in a faster, more efficient ing in her spare time. manner. Esther Crawford Head of Government Lee Hilyer Publications and Microforms Interlibrary Loan Librarian [email protected] [email protected]

FALL 2000 15 RICE UNIVERSITY FONDREN LIBRARY NEWS fromFONDREN Volume 10, Number 1, Fall 2000 Regular Hours Editor September 6, 2000–December 17, 2000 Elizabeth Baber and [email protected] January 16, 2001–May 8, 2001 Proofing Joe Hatfield Open 24 hours, Sunday noon–Friday 10:00 p.m. Saturday 9:00 a.m.–10:00 p.m. Newsletter Committee David Bynog Library hours are modified during the following periods: Esther Crawford Jack Drost Labor Day Week Spring Midterm Recess Lee Hilyer Saturday, Sept. 2–Monday, Sept. 4 Friday, March 2–Saturday, Kerry Keck March 10 Alice Rhoades Lisa Spiro Fall Midterm Recess Friday, Oct. 13–Monday, Oct. 16 Spring Recess Photographer Wednesday, Apr. 11–Sunday, Tommy LaVergne Thanksgiving Recess Apr. 15 News from Fondren Wednesday, Nov. 22–Friday, Nov. 24 is published twice a year in the Spring Final Exams fall and spring. Final Exams and Holidays Friday, Apr. 27–Sunday, May 6 For information, contact Friday, Dec. 8–Monday, Jan. 15 Elizabeth Baber Rice University Summer Hours Fondren Library–MS 44 P.O. Box 1892 May 9, 2001–September 4, 2001 Houston, Texas 77251-1892 Monday–Friday 7:00 A.M.–8:00 P.M. Saturday–Sunday 10:00 A.M.–6:00 P.M. 713-348-3749 (Closed May 26–28, Saturday–Monday, for Memorial Day)

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